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- Pruning Trees
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This site provides a step-by-step guide to pruning trees with topics including how to prune, when to prune, and how much to prune.
- Preserving Trees Affected By Development
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Mature trees provide many benefits to development sites. They enhance the aesthetic character of the area, give scale to the new buildings, provide shade, give a look of maturity to the landscape, and provide habitat for wildlife. it may be possible to retain trees with minimum forethought. However, preserving specimens that will survive and perform well in the new environment requires thorough planning, careful implementation, and adequate maintenance.
- Persistence of Herbicides in Soil
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This publication discusses the factors that determine the length of time herbicides persist in the soil.
- Components of a Backyard Wildlife Habitat
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Added: October 20, 2008Wildlife need food, water, cover and space. To help you plan how to provide these in your backyard habitat, this fact sheet introduces you to 16 components.
- Brown Spot in Florida Rice
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Brown spot is one of the most important rice diseases in Florida. The disease can adversely affect the yield and milling quality of the grain. Under environmental conditions conducive to disease, yield loss estimates range from 16 to 40 percent in Florida. This document summarizes brown spot.
- Anthracnose of acacia in Florida: occurrence and fungicidal control
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Describes the Anthracnose fungus of Acacia trees in Florida and its prevention and management.
- Tree Crops for Marginal Farmland White Pine
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This publication describes the most effective practices used to grow white pine trees in the southern United States and the cost of those practices. It includes a financial analysis which uses typical costs and expected returns to evaluate a representative investment.
- Site Preparation Methods for Regenerating Southern Pines
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With adequate site preparation, southern pine stands can be regenerated by natural means (using seed from mature trees about to be harvested) or artificial means (planting seedlings or direct seeding).
- Marketing Your Timber: The Products
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Knowledge of forest products is fundamental to helping forest landowners effectively market timber. Therefore, a basic understanding of the major forest product groups is essential to helping landowners get the highest price when marketing their timber.
- Invasion of the Weird Trees
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....they come in all shapes and sizes. They fill the air with sweet,``fragrant scents of spring blossoms, and splash the landscape with``brilliant colors in the fall. They cool the air with their shade and``provide a barrier against the harsh winter wind. They add beauty``and comfort to our lives, as well as furnishing us with thousands of``products we use every day.
- Federally Protected Plants of Georgia
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Everyone is aware of the plight of endangered animals but few know about our endangered and threatened plants (Federally listed). Many people do not know or care where these plants live and how they grow.
- Eastern Gray Squirrel
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Added: September 17, 2008Management guide.
- Designing a Prescribed Fire Demonstration Area
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This site focuses on how to design a prescribed fire demonstration and the benefits that come from prescribed burning.
- Crown Pruning Effects on Roots
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Tree growth and development are dependent upon a few basic mechanisms. These mechanisms are responsible for the tree making holistic adjustments to a changing external environment. These basic mechanisms also allow for correlation of processes internally.
- Air Seasoning (Drying) of Wood
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Drying, (air seasoning) wood can be complex. The purpose of this guide is to outline some of the important points in drying small quantities of wood.
- Options for Disposing of Leaves
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This publication discusses options that are available to homeowners to dispose of their leaves.
- Natural Resource Enterprises: A Checklist of Considerations for Landowners
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Added: November 11, 2002This checklist and accompanying explanations should be helpful to landowners in making decisions before they initiate and make investments in such an enterprise.
- Tree Roots in Urban Landscapes
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The top of the tree is easy to see, thus any problems there are quickly noted. But did you know that much of the tree decline you see above ground is due to problems originating below ground?
- Timber Stand Improvement
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Timber stand improvement practices are needed to remove trees of undesirable form, quality, condition, growth rate, or species. Removal of poor trees will stimulate the growth of better trees and will increase profits to private, non-industrial forestland owners.
- Stream Corridor Restoration
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There's more to a stream than the rushing or meandering water. A stream corridor, or stream valley, is a complex and valuable ecosystem which includes the land, plants, animals, and network of streams within it. Recognition of the value of stream corridors has come with the understanding of what has been lost through uninformed or misguided actions on many streams and the watersheds that nourish them.
- Snakes of Georgia
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Powerpoint slides of the snakes of Georgia.
- Smoke Management Guidelines
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The South Carolina Smoke Management Guidelines provide for minimizing the impact of smoke from vegetative debris burning operations.``To do this, the Guidelines define smoke sensitive areas, amounts of vegetative debris that may be burned, and atmospheric conditions suitable for burning this debris
- North Carolina Department of Environmental and Natural Rewsources Division of Forest Resources
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Forest Service Home Page about who we are.
- Harperella (Ptilimnium nodosum)
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Found on and around wet sand bars, shoals, seeps, fast-flowing clear rocky streams, wet savanna meadows, shallow depressions in flatwoods, shallow pineland pools and ditches. Grows well under open canopies of oak, hickory, and pine. Short duration, annual...
- Private Landowners Guide to Forest Certification in the South
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Added: September 17, 2008After hearing the phrase forest certification, many people ask, what, how, and why. This publication helps forest landowners understand forest certification, how it began, why it should be considered, what types of certification systems are available, and the steps necessary to become certified.
- Oak Regeneration
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An online slideshow on oak regeneration.
- North Carolina Forest Legacy Program
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To identify and protect environmentally important forest lands that are threatened by present or future conversion to non-forest use. The program will be available only in areas identified in North Carolinaís Forest Legacy Assessment of Need. These areas will be determined by an advisory group with input from the public.
- A Hunter's Guide to Aging and Judging Live White-Tailed Deer in the Southeast
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Managing deer population numbers and sex ratio requires selective harvest. This publication provides a few general physical criteria for aging and sexing deer before harvest.
- Wood Products Business: Not Necessarily as Usual: Part 2
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Added: October 25, 2008Developing a customer base for a business and then continually satisfying it requires innovative thinking and forward-looking planning.
- Landscape Plants for Georgia
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Landscape Plants for Georgia is an effort to compile a list of good plants organized into various sizes and groups. It does not list all available plant materials but rather brings together the best possible groupings according to the principles and requirements of good landscape design and plant maintenance. It is not possible to offer pictures of the plants. Many publications, books and web sites, however, have good plant pictures.
